Fine structure of conidiogenesis in the mosquito pathogen Culicinomyces clavosporus (Deuteromycotina)

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. O. Inmann III ◽  
C. E. Bland
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Conidiogenous Cell ◽  
Dense Core ◽  
Dense Core Vesicles ◽  
Conidiogenous Locus ◽  
Mode Of Development ◽  
Mosquito Pathogen ◽  
Primary Conidium

Conidiogenesis in Culicinomyces clavosporus Couch, Romney, and Rao (Deuteromycotina) is initiated with the growth of conidiogenous cells from vegetative hyphae. Formation of the primary conidium itself begins with a conidial initial which grows through the bilaminar wall at the tip of the conidiogenous cell, wall remnants of the conidiogenous cell often collapsing to form a collarette at the base of conidia. This factor, in addition to the fixed conidiogenous locus, shows that the conidiogenous cell is a phialide. As the conidial initial enlarges, a bilaminar well is synthesized around the cell, and cytoplasmic organelles migrate through the neck of the phialide into the initial. Once the conidium is mature, a septum is formed across the open neck of the phialide and two organelles (dense-core vesicles and autophagosomes), unique to conidia, become evident. The mode of development is enteroblastic–phialidic; Culicinomyces clavosporus is placed therefore in section IVB of the Hughes–Tubaki–Barron classification scheme described by B. Kendrick for the Deuteromycotina.

Fine structure of conidiogenesis in the holoblastic, sympodial Tritirachium roseum

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 2033-2036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence M. Hammill
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Cell Wall ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Conidiogenous Cell ◽  
Full Size ◽  
Distal Half ◽  
Electron Transmission ◽  
Proximal Half ◽  
Conidiogenous Locus ◽  
Fertile Region

Electron microscopy of conidiogenesis in Tritirachium roseum was done on material fixed in glutaraldehyde followed by OsO4. The walls of conidiogenous cells, though pigmented, lacked well-defined differential electron-transmission layers. Conidial initials developed without the appearance of a rupture in the conidiogenous cell wall, i.e., development was holoblastic. Each successively produced conidiogenous locus developed below and to one side of the previously formed conidium, and the fertile region of the conidiogenous cell elongated in a geniculate pattern. After each conidial initial reached full size, it was delimited by a centripetally developing septum, which increased in thickness, became double, and split during conidial secession. The distal half of a split septum formed the conidial base; the proximal half remained as part of the conidiogenous cell wall. Upon conidial secession, basal frills on conidia, and secession scars on conidiogenous cells were especially conspicuous.

The fine structure of conidiogenesis in Alysidium resinae (=Torula ramosa)

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Ellis ◽  
D. A. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Conidiogenous Cell ◽  
Mechanical Rupture

Conidia of Alysidium resinae (Fr.) M. B. Ellis (=Torula ramosa Peck) arise enteroblastically from polyblastic, ampulliform conidiogenous cells after mechanical rupture of the conidiogenous cell wall and are produced in either branched or unbranched acropetalous chains, successively younger conidia being produced enteroblastically from the immediately older conidia. There is no indication that conidial evagination occurs via enzymatically produced channels in the parent wall, protrusion being exclusively mechanical. Attention is drawn to the controversy surrounding the enteroblastic tretic mode of conidiogenesis.

The ultrastructure of the Spilocaea state of Venturia inaequalis in vivo

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1144-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Corlett ◽  
James Chong ◽  
E. G. Kokko
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Venturia Inaequalis ◽  
Conidiogenous Cell ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Apical Region ◽  
Mesophyll Cells ◽  
Epidermal Cell Wall ◽  
Primary Conidium

There are indications that the fungus enzymatically degrades the cuticle and epidermal cell wall. The epidermal cells and to a lesser degree the palisade mesophyll cells beneath a sporulating lesion (susceptible reaction) are killed or seriously disrupted. Various stages of conidiogenesis, including development of the primary conidium, were observed. A conidium is delimited by a two-layered transverse septum. Before conidium secession, a new two-layered inner wall is laid down around the entire conidiogenous cell adjacent to the plasmalemma. The apical region of the new inner wall proliferates beyond the annellation scar left by the seceded conidium and eventually produces another conidium.

The fine structure of conidial development in the genus Torula. III. T. graminis Desm.

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Ellis ◽  
D. A. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Fine Structure ◽  
Conidiogenous Cell ◽  
Conidial Development ◽  
Hyaline Zone

Torula graminis produced blastoconidia in acropetalous chains after the evagination of a characteristic conidiogenous cell. Conidia consisted of up to 15 cells and their cell wall was differentiated into an outer melanized zone and an inner hyaline zone. A consistent cytoplasmic feature of conidial cells was the presence of dictyosomal-like membranous stacks often closely associated with the nucleus. Vesicles that developed from the dictyosomal-like cisternae were probably involved in conidial wall synthesis.

Relationship between golgi apparatus and axonal reticulum in sympathetic ganglion cells

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 598-599
Author(s):  
J. Quatacker ◽  
W. De Potter
Keyword(s):  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Sympathetic Ganglion ◽  
Phosphotungstic Acid ◽  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Dense Core ◽  
Dense Core Vesicles ◽  
Large Dense Core Vesicles ◽  
Cervical Ganglia ◽  
Axoplasmic Reticulum

Mucopolysaccharides have been demonstrated biochemically in catecholamine-containing subcellular particles in different rat, cat and ox tissues. As catecholamine-containing granules seem to arise from the Golgi apparatus and some also from the axoplasmic reticulum we examined wether carbohydrate macromolecules could be detected in the small and large dense core vesicles and in structures related to them. To this purpose superior cervical ganglia and irises from rabbit and cat and coeliac ganglia and their axons from dog were subjected to the chromaffin reaction to show the distribution of catecholamine-containing granules. Some material was also embedded in glycolmethacrylate (GMA) and stained with phosphotungstic acid (PTA) at low pH for the detection of carbohydrate macromolecules.The chromaffin reaction in the perikarya reveals mainly large dense core vesicles, but in the axon hillock, the axons and the terminals, the small dense core vesicles are more prominent. In the axons the small granules are sometimes seen inside a reticular network (fig. 1).

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